O.T. Do auto companies have a data base for design problems that have been solved

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I spent 40 years in GM dealerships as a master tech in various certifying orgs. No corporate memory what so ever. Every new engineer has to justify his existance so he/she starts with a clean sheet of paper. And the manufacturers design cars to assemble not repair, the bastiges!
Joe

Thanks for the personal insight Joe.
Why am I not surprised?
Although some of the newer technology seems great in concept the execution is haphazard at best. When looking at the huge number of recalls by all of the automakers one could easily assume that they just started in the biz last year and are not quite up to speed yet. Many of the same design flaws and assembly mistakes are repeated from one decade to the next and learning from the mistakes of your competition is simply not an option.